Translated Title North America Description This map depicts North, Central, and South America with California detached from the mainland. Inscribed in type in Latin, "California, a prioribus Geographis semper habita suit quedam para Contineus atcepts per Hollandes ab Hispanis tabula quaedam Geographica compertum essinsulam ebe et continers ubi larissima est geo leucas A. Cap. Mendecino nero nsq, ad C.S. Luce repertum est teslibus tabula predicta et Francisco...

Translated Title

A New Map of America

Descriptive Title

A book of old maps delineating American history

Transcript (DCI)

Septentrionalißimas Americæ partes, Goenlandiam puta Islandiā et adjacentes, quod Americæ tabulæ commodé comprehendi non potuerint, peculiari hac tabella Spectatoribus exhibendas duximus,

Description From catalog info:Map of Virginia when discovered in 1606 and described by Captain John Smith. This map was reproduced in 1868.7 leagues equal one inch.Graven by William Hole. J. Bares, Oxford, 1612. (Repo-1868).Note in pencil on verso of map. Impression is taken from map of Virginia, 1624 copper plate used for John Smith's General History of Virginia 80(1819) published at Richmond (Virginia). Reproduction made from plate in 1868 by T.H.W. Note in lower...

Description In this drawing from the 1879 ledger book, a Cheyenne warrior counts coup on a fallen adversary as he attempts to shoot his arrow. The artist drew the enemy with few details while his own self-portrait includes identifying features – the black shirt and hat with a silver pin, German silver pendant, bandana with a silver slide, silver arm bands and hair plates, and a shield with images of the sun and full and crescent moons. From the article: Preserving History in the Southern...

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Compilations of ledger drawings drawn and colored by the Indian Scouts of Fort Reno, bound in the Neal W. Evans ledger book.

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This colored booklet is in fairly good condition, with unusual edges. The color on the cover is bright and clear. The front and back cover altogether depicts a scene that Indian chiefs and the cowboys and cowgirls on horses together to fight the enemies. The date is Tuesday, Aug 22, 1910, St. Paul, University Ave. The pages in the booklet is somewhat aging and fragile, yellowish, but well maintained.